EP0836239B1 - Gegentakt-Mikrostreifenleitungsfilter - Google Patents

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EP0836239B1
EP0836239B1 EP97305395A EP97305395A EP0836239B1 EP 0836239 B1 EP0836239 B1 EP 0836239B1 EP 97305395 A EP97305395 A EP 97305395A EP 97305395 A EP97305395 A EP 97305395A EP 0836239 B1 EP0836239 B1 EP 0836239B1
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  • the invention relates to microstrip bandpass filters, and in particular to a low-radiation balanced microstrip bandpass filter.
  • Microstrip filters are filters constructed with coupled microstrip resonators. Microstrip bandpass filters may be used in transceivers for wireless systems, for example, and are typically designed with centre frequencies in the range of 1 - 60 GHz. Most radio systems needing modulation also require one or more bandpass filters. If a radio component such as a receiver, transmitter or transceiver is implemented using microstrip technology to interconnect its various components, then a microstrip filter is the best way to integrate with the rest of the components any bandpass filters required because the microstrip filter can be made during the same set of process steps as those used to make the interconnections between the components of the receiver. A more expensive alternative to an integrated microstrip filter is a filter which uses additional discrete components of a different substrate which may have to be packaged.
  • microstrip resonators are arranged on the surface of a dielectric substrate, the substrate having a conductive ground plane beneath it.
  • Conventional microstrip filters have a series of filter sections connected together, each section consisting of two parallel microstrip segments which overlap along a portion of their lengths. The frequency response of the filter is determined by the degree of coupling between the segments forming each section, this being determined by the perpendicular distance between the parallel segments.
  • a bandpass filter In a bandpass filter, it is usually desirable to have a flat passband, with a steep roll-off outside the passband. It is also desirable to minimize the loss of the filter.
  • Conventional microstrip bandpass filters can have excessive radiation losses at millimeter-wave frequencies. For example, it has been shown in a paper by P.B.Katehi, entitled “Radiation Losses in MM-wave Open Microstrip Filters," Electromagnetics, vol.7, no.2, p.137-152, 1987, that some existing designs can radiate more that 80 per cent of the power going into the filter. A further problem is that the radiation is not uniform across the passband resulting in a sloped passband response.
  • microstrip bandpass filters were implemented using minimum width microstrip lines but this only reduced the radiation loss by about 12%.
  • M. MAKIMOTO ET AL.: 'STRIP-LINE RESONATOR FILTERS HAVING MULTI-COUPLED SECTIONS' 1983 IEEE MTT-S INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM-DIGEST, 31 May 1983 - 3 June 1983, BOSTON (US), pages 92-94, XP002052008 describes a resonator filter for microwave integrated circuit applications comprising coupled strip lines.
  • the filter includes a first pair of strip lines coupled to an input and a second pair of strip lines coupled to an output and which are parallel to and co-extensive with the first pair.
  • Each of the input strip lines couples with one of the output strip lines to form a doubly coupled filter section. In comparison with singly coupled lines, this arrangement allows the inter line spacing to be increased so that manufacturing tolerances can be relaxed.
  • the invention provides a low radiation balanced microstrip filter.
  • the currents and potentials along the filter are balanced and in close proximity with the result that the far field radiation is small in comparison with that of a single ended microstrip design.
  • a microstrip bandpass filter having a centre frequency and for coupling between an input line and an output line in which microstrip segments are located on a dielectric substrate having a ground plane on a first surface of the substrate characterized in that the microstrip segments comprise N pairs of parallel microstrip segments where N ⁇ 2 is the order of the filter, the parallel microstrip segments of a given pair being substantially coextensive, each pair located a spaced distance from the first surface, the N pairs of microstrip segments arranged in sequence lengthwise with each pair of segments being displaced lengthwise relative to an adjacent pair of microstrip segments and coupled thereto, a differential input means for coupling an input line to the first pair of microstrip segments; and a differential output means for coupling an output line to the last pair of microstrip segments.
  • microstrip segments are located on a second surface of the substrate.
  • At least one pair of microstrip segments is coupled to an adjacent pair of microstrip segments with an overlap along a portion of their lengths.
  • adjacent pairs of microstrip segments are located in two different planes, and are broadside coupled.
  • two pairs of adjacent microstrip segments are collinear and the collinear pairs of microstrip segments are end coupled with each other.
  • the input means comprises an input pair of microstrip segments coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments has a length of approximately ⁇ /4 where ⁇ is the wavelength of the centre frequency of the bandpass filter.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments are parallel-length coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments are broadside coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments are end-to-end coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the input means comprises an input pair of microstrip segments coupled to the first pair of segments, the input pair of microstrip segments having a length of approximately ⁇ /4 where ⁇ is the wavelength of the centre frequency of the bandpass filter, the input pair of microstrip segments being parallel-length coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the output means comprises an output pair of microstrip segments coupled to the last pair of segments.
  • the output pair of microstrip segments has a length of approximately ⁇ /4 where ⁇ is the wavelength of the centre frequency of the band pass filter.
  • the output pair of microstrip segments are parallel-length coupled to the last pair of segments.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments are broadside coupled to the last pair of segments.
  • the input pair of microstrip segments are end-to-end coupled to the first pair of segments.
  • the output means comprises an output pair of microstrip segments coupled to the last pair of segments, the output pair of microstrip segments having a length of approximately ⁇ /4 where ⁇ is the wavelength of the centre frequency of the bandpass filter, the output pair of microstrip segments being parallel-length coupled to the last pair of segments.
  • the N pairs of microstrip segments each have a length of approximately ⁇ /2.
  • the distance between the two microstrip segments in each pair alternately increases and decreases from the first pair to the last pair.
  • the input means comprises a first transition for connecting the filter to a single ended microstrip input, the transition comprising: "T" junction for connection to the input; a pair of corner junctions for connection to the first pair of microstrips; a first segment approximately ⁇ /4 long connecting the "T” junction and one of the corner junctions and a second segment approximately 3 ⁇ /4 long connecting the "T” junction and the other of the corner junctions, where ⁇ is the wavelength of the centre frequency of the filter.
  • the output means comprises a second transition similar to the first transition for connecting the last pair of microstrip segments in the filter to a single ended output microstrip.
  • Figure 1 depicts a plan view of a typical prior art microstrip bandpass filter having two ports 10,12 and a plurality of microstrips 14,16,18,20,22.
  • the microstrips are located on one surface of a dielectric substrate (not shown) and a ground plane is located on the other surface of the dielectric substrate.
  • Each of the microstrips 14 and 22 is ⁇ /4 long and each of the microstrips 16, 18 and 20 is ⁇ /2 long, where ⁇ is the wavelength at the desired centre frequency of the bandpass filter.
  • Each microstrip overlaps adjacent microstrips along a distance of ⁇ /4.
  • the gaps g a ,g b ,g c ,g d between adjacent microstrips determine the degree of coupling between adjacent microstrips and also determine the filter characteristics.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a plan view of an example of one section of a balanced microstrip filter according to the invention. Shown is a first pair of parallel microstrip segments 30,36 and a second pair of parallel microstrip segments 32,34, the two pairs of segments located between a first differential port 40 and a second differential port 42. As before, the microstrip segments are located on one surface of a dielectric substrate (not shown) and a ground plane is located on the other surface of the substrate.
  • the filter section is symmetrical about dotted line 38; thus the pair of segments 30,36 have the same length, and the pair of segments 32,34 have the same length.
  • a complete filter is a combination of several filter sections like the one depicted in Figure 2.
  • each segment is nominally ⁇ /4 where ⁇ is the wavelength of the desired centre frequency for the filter.
  • ⁇ is the wavelength of the desired centre frequency for the filter.
  • adjacent segments of length ⁇ /4 combine to form segments of length ⁇ /2, resulting in the filter having segments of length ⁇ /4 on either end, and length ⁇ /2 for all the other segments.
  • the length L2 is the length of the coupling overlap region between the pair of segments 32,34 and the pair 30,36. This length L2 determines the coupling between adjacent segments.
  • the transmission/reflection characteristics of the filter section may be summarized by the scattering parameters S ij .
  • S ij is the ratio of the wave magnitude and phase at port i to that of the wave incident on port j, where port 1 is the input to the section, and port 2 is the output of the section..
  • the lengths L1 and L3 are set so that the phase of S 21 which is the phase shift at the output of the filter section, is -90° at the center frequency, and the phases of S 11 and S 22 are 180° at the center frequency of the filter.
  • the second pair of segments could be made to have a smaller gap, the first pair having a larger gap, so that the second pair is sandwiched between the first pair.
  • a complete bandpass filter consists of several filter sections similar to the one illustrated in Figure 2. To realize a filter with N poles, N+1 filter sections are required.
  • An example of a three pole or four section Chebychev-I filter (equiripple in the pass band) realization using filter sections according to the invention is shown in Figure 3a, in which the four filter sections have been labeled Section 1 through Section 4. Shown are five pairs of microstrip segments 50,52,54,56,58.
  • the intermediate pairs 52,54,56 are resonators, which in a properly designed filter, will resonate at or very near the frequency of the bandpass filter.
  • Each pair of segments has a coupling overlap region with any adjacent pairs, there being four coupling overlap regions in all.
  • the length of the overlap region in each section corresponds to the distance L2 of Figure 2 and is usually different for each section.
  • the distance or gap between the two segments in each pair is preferably as small as possible since this leads to a tighter electrical coupling between the two segments, and the more tightly coupled the two segments the less radiation loss there will be. In the illustrated embodiment, this is achieved by making the distance between the two segments of each pair alternately increase and decrease.
  • pairs 50,54,58 have a very small distance g 1 between them
  • pairs 52,56 have a slightly larger distance g 2 between them to allow for the coupling overlap regions.
  • the resonator pair with the highest Q have a minimum gap between them.
  • resonator pair 54 has the highest Q, and thus has a minimum gap.
  • the input and output pairs 50,58 can also have a gap equal to the narrowest gap but this is of secondary importance to the highest Q section having the narrowest gap.
  • the result is three pairs of ⁇ /2 resonators 52,54,56, and two pairs of ⁇ /4 lines 50,58 coupling to the first and last pairs of resonators.
  • These lengths may be considered nominal in the sense that various other physical effects may result in a preferred length for a given microstrip segment which is different from either ⁇ /2 or ⁇ /4.
  • the resonators need to be the proper length for resonance at the desired centre frequency.
  • there is a fringing capacitance at the ends of the resonators so the actual resonant length is a little less than ⁇ /2.
  • a line which is open circuit at one end and short circuit at the other will be resonant at 3/4 ⁇ .
  • the lines could be terminated with an arbitrary impedance at each end causing the resonant length to vary again.
  • the propagation velocity, c, or the effective dielectric constant ⁇ eff (c 0 /c) 2 where c 0 is speed of light in a vacuum, varies with the transmission line geometry, substrate thickness, line width, gap between segments in a pair, and the metal thickness above the top surface of the substrate.
  • the physical geometry is different at either end of a filter section. In the case of a microstrip filter, these physical parameters are all constant with the exception of the gap.
  • the gap between segment pairs alternates between g 1 and g 2 .
  • the lengths L1 and L3 (shown in Figure 2) must be different.
  • a given filter section is defined by the three variables L1, L2, and L3. These should be selected such that the electrical length is 90° at the centre frequency, and the reflection phase is the same at either end, usually 180°. How the lengths L1, L2, and L3 are determined in order to create a filter with the desired frequency response is discussed in detail further below.
  • the purpose of the two sets of ⁇ /4 segments 50,58, is to couple the source of the signal to be filtered to the first and last pairs of resonators 52,56.
  • the length of these segments is significant to the magnitude of the coupling.
  • the end segments may have different lengths.
  • the bandpass filter illustrated in Figure 3a has a differential or balanced input and a differential or balanced output and is suitable for connection to components which have differential inputs and/or outputs.
  • a microstrip to balanced microstrip transition also known as a balun
  • Figure 4 illustrates a balun which can be used to implement such a transition.
  • the balun has an input consisting of "T" junction 102 for connection to the single ended microstrip 100 and the balun has an output consisting of a pair of corners 106,108 for connection to the balanced microstrip 104 which leads to the first filter section (not shown).
  • the balun further consists of two curved transition sections 110,112 which are 1/4 and 3/4 wavelengths long respectively forming a circle. Note that in the illustration the input and output are not at an angle of 90° to each other because the widths of the single ended microstrip and balanced microstrips contribute very little to the length of the transition sections.
  • the radius of the ring and the angle between input and output may be optimized to minimize both reflection and common mode signal.
  • the single ended transmission line 100 has an impedance R
  • the balanced line 104 has an impedance equal to 2R
  • the lines 110, 112 forming a circle have an impedance equal to R 2 .
  • Balanced microstrip bandpass filters are designed to have the same frequency response as conventional transmission line filters having the same ideal filter transfer function. This may be a Chebychev-I or Butterworth response, for example.
  • Cohn's formulas provide a means for computing from the overall filter transfer function the even and odd mode impedances for each conventional filter section and the frequency response of an ideal filter section.
  • Cohn's formulas yield N+1 individual even mode impedances, odd mode impedances, and filter section frequency responses.
  • the balanced line filter sections have the same characteristic impedance as the system interconnect, then they can be individually designed to match the response of the equivalent section of a conventional filter.
  • the balanced line filter will be designed using a characteristic impedance for the filter sections which is different from that of the system interconnect. Given this impedance, the even and odd mode impedances for each section that give the same filter response (as the conventional filter section with matched impedance at the system interconnect) can be determined using an equivalent circuit simulator with an optimizer. In either case, the N+1 filter section frequency responses of each filter section are used for the balanced line filter design.
  • each section may be modeled with the schematic shown in Figure 5.
  • Each section has an ideal even mode impedance Z oe , and an odd mode impedance Z oo and a frequency response summarized by the four scattering parameters S 11 ,S 12 ,S 21 , and S 22 , all of which are functions of L1, L2, L3.
  • S 21 represents the frequency response at the output
  • S 11 represents the reflection frequency response.
  • ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 are the phase delays introduced by the physical length of the microstrip segments.
  • the optimizer is able to match the center frequency characteristics of each section given the three variables L1, L2, and L3 and a reasonable starting point. This technique has not been applied to optimize an entire filter at once, being limited to application to individual filter sections.
  • curves 212, 214 show the response of the filter after optimization process (step 2 above) has been carried out.
  • Curves 200. 202 show the response of the whole filter simulated together with the length corrections made to account for the de-embedding phase error. It can been seen that those curves match very well with the response plotted in curves 204, 206 which is very close to the intended design response.
  • Figure 6 The results in shown Figure 6 are for a design as illustrated in Figure 3b, which shows the filter of Figure 3a with exemplary dimensions indicated.
  • FIG 7 the simulated responses of a conventional 50 ⁇ microstrip filter designed using published formulas (curve 250), a minimum line width but otherwise conventional microstrip filter (curve 252), and the balanced microstrip filter exemplified above in Figure 3b (curve 254) are shown.
  • the 50 ⁇ microstrip filter has a peak simulated radiation loss of 6.0 dB.
  • the minimum line width filter response 252 has a slightly improved peak simulated radiation loss of 5.0 dB.
  • the balanced microstrip filter response 254 has a much improved peak simulated radiation loss of 0.10dB.
  • the nonuniform loss of the conventional microstrip filters also degrades the frequency responses 250, 252 away from having flat passbands, while the low radiation balanced design has a very flat response 254 in the passband.
  • a center frequency error in the response 254 of the balanced filter can be seen in the responses plotted in Figure 7. This is an artifact of the moment method simulation of the balanced filter and is a function of the discretization or gridding of the filter. Once the offset is known, the filter can be redesigned to accommodate the offset.
  • the minimum simulated insertion losses including typical conductor and dielectric losses for the filters in the above comparison are 4.4 dB for the 50 ⁇ microstrip filter, 4.1 dB for the 5 mil wide microstrip filter, and .8 dB for the balanced line filter. Wider lines in the balanced line filter will increase the radiation loss to a small extent, but the conductor loss can be substantially improved. The limit will typically be determined by the amount of coupling required in the first and last sections and the minimum gap of the manufacturing process.
  • the common mode signal attenuation of the balanced microstrip filter is not particularly good, so the useful stop band of the filter is determined by the bandwidth of the microstrip to balanced microstrip transition used.
  • the plot in Figure 8 compares the balanced filter response when driven with a pair of lossless microstrip to balanced line transitions (curves 260,262) to that driven with a differential signal (curves 264,266). In this case, the stop band attenuation begins to seriously degrade outside an 18% bandwidth.
  • FIGs 9a and 9b A phase response of a bandpass filter designed according to the invention is plotted in Figures 9a and 9b for the filter shown in Figure 3b.
  • Figure 9a is a plot of the transmission phase response (the phase of S 21 ).
  • the transmission phase response is continuous with an increased phase delay in the passband.
  • Figure 9b is a plot of the reflection phase response (the phase of S 11 ).
  • the reflection phase response has a 180° phase shift at each pole as the reflection goes through zero.
  • the 180° phase shift is not necessarily between -90° and 90°.
  • Some applications exist such as the transceiver application, in which the phase behavior of the filter is of little importance, but in other cases it is desirable to have a linear phase response across the passband.
  • the design methods disclosed herein do not specifically address the problem of optimizing the phase response.
  • Butterworth (maximally flat) designs can also be realized.
  • a feature of a balanced microstrip filter is the availability of a wideband and low loss virtual ground. This allows high Q notches or zeros to be realized and possibly bandstop filters, or Chebychev-II (equiripple in the stopband) or Cauer (elliptical) bandpass filters. Also, low loss stepped impedance lowpass filters could be realized in balanced microstrip.
  • the microstrip segments of adjacent pairs have alternately increasing and decreasing gaps between them. It is believed that this yields the lowest radiation loss, but alternative balanced configurations may be used. For example the gap may increase for several adjacent pairs, and then decrease for several adjacent pairs as illustrated in Figure 12.
  • open circuit parallel microstrip segments have been employed with the coupling between adjacent resonators or between resonators and input/output lines determined by the length of overlap.
  • the invention is not limited to this particular type of coupling.
  • end coupling, broadside coupling, or conventional parallel coupling may be employed, so long as the result is a balanced design with low radiation loss.
  • a broadside coupled filter section is comprised of a first pair of microstrip segments located in a plane a first distance from the ground plane, and a second pair located in a plane a second distance from the ground plane such that there is a planar overlap between the two pairs of segments.

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  1. Mikrostreifen-Bandpassfilter mit einer Mittenfrequenz und zum Koppeln zwischen einer Elngangsleitung und einer Ausgangsleitung, wobei sich Mikrostreifen-Segmente auf einem dielektrischen Substrat befinden, das eine Masseebene auf einer ersten Oberfläche des Substrates aufweist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Mikrostreifen-Segmente (52, 54, 56) N Paare von parallelen Mikrostrelfen-Segmenten umfassen, worin N ≥ 2 die Ordnung des Filters ist, wobei die parallelen Mikrostreifen-Segmente eines vorgegebenen Paares sich im wesentlichen über die gleiche Strecke erstrecken und jedes Paar in einer Entfernung in Abstand von der ersten Oberfläche angeordnet ist, wobei die N Paare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten in einer Folge in Längsrichtung angeordnet sind, wobei jedes Paar von Segmenten gegenüber einem benachbarten Paar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten versetzt und hiermit gekoppelt ist, und mit einer Differenz-Eingangseinrichtung (50) zum Koppeln einer Eingangsleitung mit dem ersten Paar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (52) und einer Differenz-Ausgangseinrichtung (58) zum Koppeln einer Ausgangsleitung mit dem letzten Paar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (56).
  2. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sich alle Mikrostreifen-Segmente (50, 52, 54, 56, 58) auf einer zweiten Oberfläche des Substrates befinden, und dass zumindest ein Paar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (52) mit einem benachbarten Paar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (54) mit einer Überlappung entlang eines Teils Ihrer Längen gekoppelt ist.
  3. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass benachbarte Paare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten in zwei unterschiedlichen Ebenen angeordnet sind und breitseitig gekoppelt sind.
  4. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass zwei Paare von benachbarten Mikrostreifen-Segmenten kollinear sind und dass die kollinearen Paare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten endseitig miteinander gekoppelt sind.
  5. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Differenz-Eingangseinrichtung ein Eingangspaar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (50) umfasst, die mit einem ersten Paar von Segmenten (52) gekoppelt sind, und dass die Differenz-Ausgangseinrichtung ein Ausgangspaar von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (58) umfasst, die mit dem letzten Paar von Segmenten (56) gekoppelt sind.
  6. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Eingangs- und Ausgangspaare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (50, 58) eine Länge von ungefähr λ/4 haben, worin λ die Wellenlänge der Mittenfrequenz des Bandpassfilters ist.
  7. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Eingangs- und Ausgangspaare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (50, 58) mit den ersten bzw. letzten Paaren der Segmente (52, 56) parallel-längsseitig gekoppelt sind.
  8. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Eingangs- und Ausgangspaare der Mikrostreifen-Segmente (50, 58) breitseitig mit den ersten bzw. letzten Paaren von Segmenten (52, 56) gekoppelt sind.
  9. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Eingangs- und Ausgangspaare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (50, 58) Ende-an-Ende mit den ersten bzw. letzten Paaren von Segmenten (52, 56) gekoppelt sind.
  10. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die N Paare von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten (52, 54, 56) jeweils eine Länge von ungefähr λ/2 haben.
  11. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Abstand zwischen den zwei Mikrostreifen-Segmenten in jedem Paar (50, 52, 54, 56, 58) abwechseind von dem ersten Paar zu dem letzten Paar zunimmt und abnimmt.
  12. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach einem der Ansprüche 1, 2, 3, 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Differenz-Eingangseinrichtung einen ersten Übergang zum Verbinden des Filters mit einem Eintakt-Mikrostreifen-Eingang (100) umfasst, wobei der Übergang Folgendes umfasst:
    eine "T"-Verbindung (102) zur Verbindung mit dem Eingang (100);
    ein Paar von Eckverbindungen (106, 108) zur Verbindung mit dem ersten Paar von Mikrostreifen;
    ein erstes Segment (110), das ungefähr λ/4 lang ist und die "T"-Verbindung (102) und eine der Eckverbindungen (108) verbindet, und ein zweites Segment (112), das angenähert 3λ/4 lang ist und die "T"-Verbindung (102) und die andere der Eckverbindungen (106) verbindet, worin λ die Wellenlänge der Mittenfrequenz des Filters ist.
  13. Mikrostreifen-Filter nach Anspruch 12, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Differenz-Ausgangseinrichtung einen zweiten Übergang ähnlich zu dem ersten Übergang zum Verbinden des letzten Paares von Mikrostreifen-Segmenten in dem Filter mit einem Eintakt-Ausgangs-Mikrostreifen umfasst.
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